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name: "Victoria Wood"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/victoria-wood-138175"
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imdb_id: "nm0940064"
tmdb_id: 138175
wikidata_id: "Q3309588"
roles: ["Writer","Actor"]
born: "19 May 1953"
died: "20 April 2016"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-10-07T14:53:26.347032+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Victoria Wood

## Identity

Victoria Wood

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/victoria-wood-138175
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** victoria-wood-138175
- **IMDb ID:** nm0940064
- **TMDB ID:** 138175
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3309588
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Wood, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3309588, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0940064/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/138175

Writer and actor. Born 19 May 1953 in Prestwich, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK. Died 20 April 2016.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer, Actor
- **Born:** 19 May 1953, Prestwich, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK
- **Died:** 20 April 2016
- **Active:** 1994–2006
- **Frequently works with:** [Gavin Millar](https://film.one/person/gavin-millar.md), Duncan Preston
- **BAFTA Television Awards:** 1 BAFTA (1 won)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Wood, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3309588, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0940064/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/138175

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Housewife, 49*](https://film.one/film/housewife-49.md) (77)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Victoria Wood (19 May 1953 – 20 April 2016) was an English comedian, actress, singer, songwriter, screenwriter and director. She wrote and starred in sketches, plays, films and sitcoms, and performed her own piano-accompanied compositions in her live comedy act. She also composed and performed the theme music for her BBC sitcom *dinnerladies*.

Wood began her career in 1974 by winning the ATV talent show *New Faces*. She established herself in the 1980s with the award-winning series *Victoria Wood As Seen on TV*. In the 1990s she wrote and co-starred in the television film *Pat and Margaret* (1994). She wrote, produced and starred in *dinnerladies* (1998–2000). In 2006 she wrote and starred in the ITV drama *Housewife, 49*, winning two BAFTA awards for the film.

Wood frequently collaborated with Julie Walters, Duncan Preston and Celia Imrie. She was awarded an OBE and a CBE.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Housewife, 49* (2006), Fi1m 77, as Nella Last — [page](https://film.one/film/housewife-49.md)

## Complete filmography (56)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Becoming Victoria Wood* (2026), as (Archive footage)
- *Fungus The Bogeyman* (2015), Actor
- *Fungus the Bogeyman* (2015), series, as Eve
- *That Day We Sang* (2014), Director, Writer, Original Music Composer
- *Victoria Wood - That Musical We Made* (2014), Writer
- *Victoria Wood's Nice Cup of Tea* (2013), Writer
- *Victoria Wood's Nice Cup of Tea* (2013), series, Writer
- *Loving Miss Hatto* (2012), Writer, Executive Producer
- *Victoria Wood's Short Term Memories* (2012), series, Writer, Creator
- *The Borrowers* (2011), as Granny Driver
- *Case Histories* (2011), series, as Tracy
- *Eric & Ernie* (2011), as Sadie Bartholomew · Conceptual Design, Writer, Executive Producer
- *Little Crackers* (2010), series, Director, Writer
- *The Angina Monologues* (2010), Producer
- *Victoria Wood: What Larks! Or... What I Did on My Holidays* (2009), Producer, Writer
- *Victoria Wood's Midlife Christmas* (2009), Actor
- *Ballet Shoes* (2008), as Nana
- *Victoria's Empire* (2007), series, Actor
- *Housewife, 49* (2006), as Nella Last · Writer — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/housewife-49.md)
- *Acorn Antiques: The Musical* (2006), as Bo Beaumont / Mrs Overall (On Bingo Nights) · Writer, Original Music Composer
- *Harry & Paul* (2005), series, Actor
- *The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse* (2005), as Queen Mary II
- *Victoria at the Albert - Live* (2002), Writer, Executive Producer
- *Dawn French's Girls Who Do Comedy* (2002), series, Actor
- *Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings* (2000), Writer, Original Music Composer, Producer
- *Don't Panic: The Dad's Army Story* (2000), as Host · Writer
- *dinnerladies* (1998), series, as Brenda · Writer, Producer, Music, Creator
- *Victoria Wood: Live* (1997), Executive Producer
- *The Wind in the Willows* (1996), as The Tea Lady
- *Pat and Margaret* (1994), as Margaret · Screenplay, Writer
- *Victoria Wood's All Day Breakfast* (1992), Writer
- *Julie Walters and Friends* (1991), series, as Creator
- *Julie Walters and Friends* (1991), Writer
- *Not Now Bernard* (1991), Actor
- *Victoria Wood: Sold Out* (1991), Writer
- *Victoria Wood* (1989), series, as Victoria · Writer, Creator
- *Screen One* (1989), series, as Margaret · Writer
- *An Audience With Victoria Wood* (1988), Writer
- *Acorn Antiques* (1987), as Berta
- *Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV* (1985), series, Writer, Creator
- *Acorn Antiques* (1985), series, as Miss Berta
- *Aspel & Company* (1984), series, Actor
- *Open Space* (1983), series, Actor
- *Wood and Walters* (1982), series, as Creator
- *Happy Since I Met You* (1981), as Voice Only (uncredited) · Writer, Music
- *Nearly a Happy Ending* (1980), as Maureen · Writer, Music
- *Victoria Wood Screenplays* (1979), series, Actor
- *Talent* (1979), as Maureen · Original Music Composer, Writer
- *Screenplay* (1979), series, as Maureen · Writer
- *The Summer Show* (1975), series, Actor
- *Omnibus* (1967), series, Actor
- *Jackanory* (1965), series, as Storyteller
- *Lux Video Theatre* (1950), series, as Cavendish
- *Victoria Wood's Mid-Life Christmas*, series, Creator
- *Victoria Wood with All The Trimmings*, series, Creator
- *Happy Since I Met You*, series, Creator

## Gallery

- ![Victoria Wood](https://film.one/media/person/6780231/gallery-7f4f531f1b10.jpg) Victoria Wood — MAG (Mines Advisory Group), CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/Victoria_Wood.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Victoria Wood](https://film.one/media/person/6780231/gallery-159ea57b1b12.jpg) Victoria Wood — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### BAFTA Television Awards — 1 won

- 2007: Best Actress (won), for *Housewife, 49*

### Other awards — 7 won

- British Comedy Awards 2011: British Comedy Awards (won)
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire 2008: Commander of the Order of the British Empire (won)
- British Comedy Awards 2005: British Comedy Awards (won)
- British Comedy Awards 2001: British Comedy Awards (won)
- British Comedy Awards 2000: British Comedy Awards (won)
- British Comedy Awards 1995: British Comedy Awards (won)
- British Comedy Awards 1990: British Comedy Awards (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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